Quite frankly, donations are at a pitiful low. They have been for the past year. Thus, I have been scrounging the barrel to keep my online ministry going.

I have worked so hard and though much satisfaction results in the HUGE number of views — I get very little financial remuneration back due to the LOW numbers of donations. (Only a handful are helping me out of tens of thousands of viewers and readers.)

I really need a miracle at this point to get me out of the doldrums, both financially and psychologically.

And how about this quote from Jared Kushner (Ivanka’s husband) about Donald Trump’s pick for Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. Kushner says, “All I know about Steve is my experience working with him. He’s an incredible Zionist and loves Israel.

“He was one of the leaders in the anti-divestiture campaign. And what I’ve seen from working together with him was somebody who did not fit the description that people are pushing on him.”

The One promised to King David as his descendant who would introduce and everlasting kingdom of Israel, is cast aside.

About Him the Psalmist did record and sing: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool’.

That Lord of David’s is seated on the right hand of God, in authority over his kingdom of God and of heaven.

He came and finished the Judaism of Moses to introduce His kingdom that is entirely Christian, being the kingdom about which St. John wrote: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever’ and ‘Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come”…’

Christians in the U.S.A. should be following that Lord and Christ, Jesus, instead of the kingdom He did demolish before God and man as the Scriptures and history reveal.

They follow the carcass consumed by the vultures as Jesus prophesied would occur. It did, in A.D.70.

Just look at Russia today. Under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, that nation revived Church and State, and the Russian people have more freedom/liberties than ever. Russia’s more of a Constitutional Republic than the USSA is.

Donald Trump wants to follow in Putin’s footsteps and restore prayer (Christian, that is) in the public schools. For saying such, The Donald is being viciously vilified by Bolshevik Liberals and their Lame Stream Media.

They’re so desperate now that they’re pulling out all the stops, including pulling off a recount scam in states such as PA and MI.

However, Michigan already did that, and Trump still came out on top. The same will happen in Pennsylvania and other such states.

Trump also wants the issue of abortion returned to the States, as well as the repeal of both “gay marriage” and Obamacare. He wants religious freedom restored to Christians - in other words - Christians to be able to display their symbols in public - especially, at Christmas and Easter, their holiest days.

We all know that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution grants religious freedom, but it also forbids a state religion. This means that Judaism as a state religion is forbidden. Jews may practice their religion, but not force it on non-Jews.

Noahide Laws are Jewish laws, and they violate the 1st Amendment. The same with Sharia Law. That also violates the 1st Amendment.

Come to think of it, Br. Nat, I never saw a huge Menorah on the White House lawn until Christmas of 1993, when Bill Clinton was POTUS.

Christmas symbols permeated the Rose Garden up to that point.

Clinton and his two successors either reduced them - or, in the case of Obama - eliminated symbols such as the Nativity Creche on the lawn in public view and replaced them with Yuletide symbols such as candy canes, snowmen and Santa and his reindeer.

Thankfully, this will be the last December with no Christian symbols publically displayed in the Rose Garden and a huge Menorah dominating the scene. The people have spoken when they voted for Trump.

I hope, Brother, that those readers/viewers of your articles/videos who are wealthy will help you out financially.

I’ve noticed these past several months that they haven’t contributed a penny to your cause, even though they read your articles and view your videos on a regular basis.

People such as I, who are struggling financially, are the ones who do manage to scrape up some money to help you out.

I’m glad you’re living in Priest River, where you have a good landlord who doesn’t rent rooms out to noisy ne’er-do-wells, as well as good neighbors who are willing to help out when they can.

Be careful to keep your immune system in good shape when traveling to preach the Gospels in the cities you plan to visit. Winter’s coming earlier this time. You’ll definitely find bitterly cold days in both Summit County, Colorado and in NYC. By the time you reach DC in the 2nd week of January, you’ll find both bitter cold, accompanied by snow.

The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act.

Why gold and silver as money? because the worth is in the money itself (intrinsic value).

Think about what happened to the value of money of many nations like Zimbabwe, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany (Weimar Republic) and even the USA itself.

Its a powerful weapon system what will destroy a whole nation in a very short time or make it weaker and ready for (civil) war.

If people realize what happened after the world wars in the west and after the colonization by the west they will be shocked.

All the gold and silver seized to be used as payment and it was replaced by paper money not backed by gold or silver.

For example:not very long ago a 20 US dollar note was the same as a 20 US dollar gold coin.

The worth of a 20 US dollar gold coin has ‘risen’ above $1,171 each in fact the paper money lost its worth. $1,171 is the minimum value of this classic US gold coin because the worth is in the gold itself.

This happened with all the nations in the world in a designed monetary system to enslave humankind.

If people realize what happened after the world wars in the West and after the colonization by the West they will be shocked.

All the gold and silver seized to be used as payment and it was replaced by paper money not backed by gold or silver.

For example:not very long ago a 20 US dollar note was the same as a 20 US dollar gold coin.

The worth of a 20 US dollar gold coin have ‘risen’ above $1,171 each in fact the paper money lost its worth . $1,171 is the minimum value of this classic US gold coin because the worth is in the gold itself.

This happened with all the nations in the world in a designed monetary system to enslave humankind.

That leaves my to one conclusion: all the problems in the world are symptoms of the real cause the monetary system of usury and sanctions.

Politicians and the elite who own the banks and all cooperations are the magicians who give away this show and leave everyone confused blaming each other ready to fight.

Note: all politicians who serve them find nice and well paid jobs and seminars/publishers after their political life.

This monetary system is designed to own everyone and everything in Europe even kings, a sultan and a czar had to find this out in the hard way.

You are quite right about “Synagogue and State” taking the place of “Church and State” — and what a curse it has been to mankind.

You are also quite right about Zionism — it is merely the fruit of Judaism and not distinct from it — otherwise all the problems with this ethnic group would only have begun when this movement raised its ugly head some 200 years ago.

And for those who want to understand Soros “divide and conquer” Black Lives Matter movement — read this article written by Brother Nathanael but appearing on another website — it explains it perfectly

Obviously these people are what the Bible calls Satan’s world system–whether conscious of it or not they have become destroyers of everything (Matthew 7:20) — for the simple reason that are now Satan seed as a result of the curse of Deicide (Matthew 27:25) — which has translated them from being a light unto the nations (Isaiah 42:6) into the Synagogue of Satan (Revelations 3 & 4).

Yes, great riches have come their way but that it is a reward for doing Satan bidding (Luke 4:5).

Hopefully for their own sake they will read this website instead of listening to that dope John Haggee.

The move has not been agreed with the Russian authorities concerned, although the routes of both civilian and government aircraft lie through the risky zones.

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows about the situation with Ukraine’s plans to carry out missile tests over the Crimean territorial waters in the Black Sea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The presidential spokesman said Russia’s Ministry of Transport is “taking all the necessary measures” in this situation.

When asked if Putin monitors the situation, Peskov said: “Of course he does”.

Chairman of the foreign policy committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, has warmed Ukraine against a missile-firing exercise in the Russia airspace.

“If the situation escalates to the point where a military response is necessary, this will surely be the most frightening and undesirable scenario of events, which all of us should prevent at all costs,” Kosachev said at an international conference titled ‘The Crisis of the World Order’.

Your power of voice with reason increases with age, Brother Nathanael.

As a violinist/composer, I have seen how most artists’ works become more and more complacent and the zeal of creative endeavor takes a back seat to commercial demands. But there are those rare exceptions where as they mature, their gift of genius, given from on High matures and grows into a most immovable foundation of contribution to the betterment of man.

This is what I see in you, Brother. I pray the LORD continue His guiding hand to encourage, persevere, and mature, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.”

The dialogue above between Blake and +BN reminds me about distinguishing between Christian Jews and anti-Christ Jews.

There are ethnic Jews who are Christians and there are ethnic Jews who hate Christianity.

Based on the Bible, Christ was of the tribe of Judah and his disciples were mostly Galilean Jews. The apostle Paul was a Jew and Paul did more to spread Christianity than anyone.

‘Christian’ is well established as the word for people who believe in Jesus, but there is not a widely accepted, well established word for Jews who hate Christianity.

Millions of people whose eyes haven’t been opened by Protocols Of Zion, the New Testament, Eustace Mullins, +BN, Henry Ford, David Duke, etc, still believe that Jews are the chosen.

If you mention the evils of ‘Jews’ to such a blinded sheep, his Jews media programmed mind quickly doubts anything more that you say. But if you talk about the evils of anti-Christ Jews, there may be a chance he will listen.

St John’s use of the word anti-Christ seems to refer to leading Jews because leading Jews generally were the only people who hated Christ. Most RJN readers see that but blind sheep don’t.

We need a fitting word just for Jews who oppose Jesus; a word which excludes Jews who believe in Jesus. This question has been posed on RJN previously - What is a catchy word for only those Jews who reject Jesus ?

Anti-Christ Jews?
Judaism Jews?
Zionists ?
?

The first 2 names above would never catch on in the Jews media. People outside RJN and similar circles don’t really understand what Zionism means.

Quite frankly, donations are at a pitiful low. They have been for the past year. Thus, I have been scrounging the barrel to keep my online ministry going.

I have worked so hard and though much satisfaction results in the HUGE number of views — I get very little financial remuneration back due to the LOW number of donations. (Only a handful are helping me out of tens of thousands of viewers and readers.)

I really need a miracle at this point to get me out of the doldrums, both financially and psychologically.

Paul was from the tribe of Benjamin so technically was not a Jew but an Israelite.

I think he was known as the Apostle to the Gentiles.

I didn’t like him for awhile because he seemed to be misogynistic, but upon much reflection realized he was so devoted to his flock that he suffered for them in a multitude of ways. Thus he has become a much-loved disciple to me.

Good topic, +BN. I’ve thought a lot about it but don’t know how it could be rolled back at this point without economic chaos.

It’s not going to happen unless there is a huge calamity which will impact the entire planet economically.

I send regular support to +BN, and encourage all to do so. His work is of immense value.

If a fraction of the thousands of readers and visitors made a commitment of a regular amount, America could be assured his voice, research and commentary will continue. Don’t aid the Jewish destruction by not helping.

They lose in the end anyway, Jesus is the world’s final victor, but why sit on the sidelines? We will all give an account to Him, how will lived and what we did with our resources.

After ancient Israel split into the northern kingdom and southern kingdom during the reign of Rehoboam, the northern king, Jeroboam, instituted golden calf worship.

Lots of people in the northern kingdom then moved to the southern kingdom of Judah (Judea) so they could follow their true God instead of following Jeroboam and his false religion. So there came to be people from all 12 tribes living in Judah.

Cerca 722 BC the northern kingdom (Israel proper) was conquered by Assyria. Judea continued until about 586 BC when it was conquered by Babylonia. The people from Judea became known as Jews because they lived in Judea, but they had ancestors from all 12 tribes because some of their ancestors from the northern kingdom had moved to Judah, the southern kingdom, due to Jeroboam’s golden calf religion.

Many Jews were descended from ancestors who fled the northern kingdom led by Jeroboam and his false religion.

Is it true that the Jewish Talmud teaches very little or nothing about how to apply faith in God in order to solve problems by using God’s help?

The Jewish Talmud desecrates the character of Jesus Christ (who teaches how to apply faith in God in order to solve problems), and the Jewish Talmud teaches and instructs Jews to cheat, steal, lie, and murder in certain instances.

Yale. Skull and Bones. Goldman Sachs. Father was Goldman. Married to an actress after leaving his first wife. Joowish. Art collecting East Coast elite. Mortgage Bond Securitizations. Soros. Reverse Mortgages. Savings and Loans. IndyMac. Lucative loss share agreements with the FDIC.

If he keeps Yellen youll know without a doubt youve been totally gamed.

Whew. And here I thought we weren’t draining the swamp for a second there.. And with the 14 straight days the Russel 2k barely saw an hour of red, it’s clear the printing riches and making the wealth gap ever so greater at the move of a mouse is still in tact.

Oddly suspicious of the timing of the Carrier news. Same night as he invites the squid to his party? That should be good for another 1k points on the Dow..

Credit to Catullus at ZH for the info on Munch, can anyone confirm #2? If so, I’ll bet he’s sure glad Tim Russert had some bad soup after questioning others.

Do you think those massive fires in the national news causing destruction in the Smokey Mountains tourist and residential areas are false flags/Zio spawned destruction for ulterior motives, or just wild fires?

The Hollywood Connection Between Trump’s Treasury Pick and Billionaire at Center of Netanyahu Scandal

Steven Mnuchin is the business partner of James Packer, whose gifts to the Netanyahu family are being probed by the Israel Police.

Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary, billionaire Steven Mnuchin, has at some point been part of nearly every elitist institution that Trump’s voters railed against in the 2016 election campaign.

This first Jewish member of the president-elect’s cabinet is also the business partner of a close friend and confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Australian billionaire James Packer.According to the report, Netanyahu’s son Yair has ridden on Packer’s private jet and stayed in hotels at Packer’s expense.

Channel 10 also reported that Packer owns a house in Caesarea next to the Netanyahus, and that the prime minister occasionally holds weekend meetings in Packer’s home. According to the report, when Packer’s ex-fiancé Mariah Carey performed in Israel last year, he gave a bundle of tickets to Netanyahu’s wife Sara.

Since the merger, RatPac-Dune Entertainment has produced more than 20 films including hits like “Gravity,” “The Lego Movie,” “Mad Max: Fury Road” and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”

Before the joining of forces with Packer and RatPac’s co-owner Brett Ratner, Mnuchin’s Dune financed 20th Century Fox movies between 2005 and 2012, including one of the most successful films of all time, “Avatar.”

The Hollywood Reporter, which has detailed Mnuchin’s show-business connections, said he met Packer through Israeli-American mega-producer Arnon Milchan, another close Netanyahu friend whose Herzliya home the prime minister used for secret meetings last year.

Netanyahu reportedly met with opposition leader Isaac Herzog and former British prime minister and outgoing Mideast envoy Tony Blair, amid rumors that Milchan was attempting to broker an agreement between Herzog and Netanyahu for a unity government.

The road through Goldman Sachs

Mnuchin, 53, grew up in Manhattan society and has known Trump for 15 years.

Since April he has served as the Trump campaign’s finance chairman. Mnuchin worked for nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, the investment bank for which Trump took Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz to task for their connections.

Like Trump, Mnuchin is a second-generation member of New York’s power elite. His father Robert Mnuchin was also a Goldman Sachs partner before becoming a renowned dealer and gallery owner who at age 80 is still an influential figure in the art world.

Described by friends in a Wall Street Journal report as being “smart” and “nerdy,” Mnuchin graduated from Yale, where he published the prestigious student newspaper The Yale Daily News. He also belonged to the secret society Skull and Bones, whose members include former presidents as well as current Secretary of State John Kerry.

After leaving Goldman Sachs, Mnuchin worked at hedge funds including that of George Soros, the billionaire progressive philanthropist and donor Trump ads have attacked. Mnuchin later started his own hedge fund.

Last year, Trump harshly criticized hedge fund managers, saying they were “getting away with murder” and “I want to save the middle class. The hedge fund guys didn’t build this country. These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky …. They make a fortune, they pay no tax, it’s ridiculous.”

Mnuchin’s unusual last name is considered a Slavic version of the biblical name “Menachem,” meaning “one who comforts” and a common Hebrew first and last name. The violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s original family name was Mnuchin but was changed by his Belorussian immigrant parents when they became American citizens.

The modest Jewish connection

Despite his background, Mnuchin appears to have no public connection to Jewish life or Jewish institutions – his preferred philanthropies appear to be the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York food rescue organization City Harvest.

A Bloomberg Businessweek profile of him in August did note that in July, a few months after he took the job in the campaign, “Trump tweeted an image of Clinton, a pile of cash, and a six-pointed star – a graphic that was previously posted on an anti-Semitic website.

“At some point on the job, Mnuchin got a call from a Holocaust survivor he knows. It went to voicemail, where the man told him how upset he is that Mnuchin supports Trump. He called the survivor back to say he respectfully disagreed.”

The article quoted Mnuchin’s friends and colleagues as saying it was hard for them to comprehend why someone like Mnuchin would take the job of raising money for Trump back when it looked like a difficult and thankless task. Trump’s likelihood of winning the Republican nomination and defeating Hillary Clinton seemed remote.

Bloomberg posited one theory: Mnuchin as “an investor with so much Wall Street blood in his veins spotted the trade of a lifetime. In exchange for a few months of unpaid work, Mnuchin gets a shot at joining President Trump’s cabinet.

“Goldman partners have wealth, and movie producers befriend stars, but the secretary of the Treasury gets his signature stamped on cash.”

A move to politics and Washington will be the second major geographical and career change in Mnuchin’s life.

In 2009 he left Wall Street for the West Coast to live closer to the Hollywood world he had become involved with as an investor, buying a $26 million mansion with his then-wife Heather, who he divorced in 2014.

That mansion was the target of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in 2011 protesting the eviction of a tenant of a house owned by a bank Mnuchin co-owned, OneWest. The bank had profited on foreclosures in the housing collapse – demanding that his bank allow a modification of a loan that would let the family remain in their home.

Married twice, Mnuchin is engaged to Scottish actress Louise Linton, who recently endured controversy of her own when her memoir on volunteer service in Africa was ridiculed for inaccuracies and a “white savior” complex.

The Hollywood Reporter piece on Mnuchin noted that he plays a cameo role in Warren Beatty’s new film “Rules Don’t Apply,” which opened in theaters last week and in which Linton appears. The article also said Mnuchin has been joking with business associates “that his wedding might take place on the White House lawn.”

I’ve located an early local report from November 26 about the fires before they blew up with the onset of wild weather from The Daily Times, described as “an award-winning daily newspaper in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, has served Blount County, Tennessee, readers since 1883.”

The Daily Times is a family-owned newspaper based in Maryville, Tenn., near Knoxville.

We provide quality news and information to the communities we serve, with an emphasis on local news in the Blount County area.”

Local rural and semi-rural papers like this are unusually reliable, because they are community and locale oriented.

The South, including Tennessee has been dealing with dry, even drought conditions. From this report on the 26th, Tennessee park and fire services were dealing with two fires, and the parks were closed due to fire hazards.

One was likely started as an illegal camping fire in the national park, and another unrelated slow moving wildfire which consumed a little over 2 square miles (1400 acres) from the 23rd unknown cause, which was about 80% contained on the 26th.

Duff is the the partly decayed organic matter on the forest floor. Pine and evergreen forests can build up 6 to 12 inches of duff or more, as it takes a long time for evergreen needles to decay.

In the meantime, the duff can get very dry while still having their volatile oils as natural accelerants, there are still air spaces in the layers of duff, and a fire can spread quickly. The fire can even invade dried up roots underground, and smoulder along root networks until it finds a spot to re-emerge.

Other reports I’ve read about the disaster is that this particular region had not seen a wildfire like this in about 100 years.

This tells me there was probably quite a build up of underbrush. I live in California which is mostly semi-arid and has a fire-driven ecology, and we basically have two seasons here — Fire Season and Rainy Season.

As much as possible in rural towns and in urban-wilderness interphase areas, land is kept clear of intermediary combustibles such as brush and grass, and low tree limbs around homes and buildings for about 100′ radius minimum for defensibility and structure protection.

Normally, Tennessee has a much high humidity rate than California which will tend to suppress fire enough to keep it containable, but this year since about September, all of the South has been experiencing a drought.

Pictures I’ve seen around Tennessee, Missouri, the Southern States usually has green grass everywhere in the summer and fall, where California’s grasslands dry out usually by June.

I would think that dried grass in Tennessee was also a contributing problem.

Since the 26th when this local news came out, a heavy northern storm front swept east across the Midwest and at the same time, air from the Gulf started pumping northeast causing unstable weather, tornadoes, high winds.

Under those conditions, the Tennessee park and wildland fires blew up. I saw a weather report which said that one weather station near where the worst of the fires struck registered gusts of up to 70 mph.

With winds like that whipping around and pushing the fires forward, a whole lot of burning ash, cinders, duff, burning leaves, twigs and branches are going to get pushed ahead very quickly, and ignite more of the wildlands. It will jump any wildland containment and fire breaks that the forestry and fire services have set up.

Windborn burning debris goes up with the smoke and then drop, spreading for miles ahead of it.

I’m confident that these fires weren’t some kind of Zionist false flag kind of thing. Just a bad combination of human error, very adverse weather conditions, and an unusually hazardous fire season for the Great Smoky Mountains area.

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The Daily Times (Nov 26):Chimney Tops Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closed as an about 3-acre wildfire burns near the summit of the trail.

Park officials said the fire appears to be the result of a person’s action.

“We are experiencing extremely dry conditions throughout the Park and we are asking for the public’s help to prevent uncontrolled wildfires,” said Chief Ranger Steve Kloster in a press release.

“The cause of the fire near Chimney Tops appears to be human-caused. If anyone has information regarding the origin of this fire, or other fires in the Park, please call the Park’s tip line at 865-436-1580.”

The slow-moving fire is burning through the shallow “duff” layer in the understory of the heath balds along the northeast slope of the Chimney Tops over extremely steep, rugged terrain.

Duff is “the layer of decomposing organic materials lying below the litter layer of freshly fallen twigs, needles, and leaves and immediately above the mineral soil,” according to the NPS.

Park fire crews, who responded to the fire on Wednesday, are establishing containment lines utilizing trails, drainages, and hand-built lines. Smoke is visible from overlooks along Newfound Gap Road.

The Chimney Tops Trail and Road Prong Trail remain closed, but the Sugarland Mountain Trail and Huskey Gap Trail have been reopened.

Containment lines are trenches dug around the perimeter of a fire zone.

Firefighters dig the trenches to contain the fire, and utilize a series of controlled burns around that perimeter to deprive the advancing flames of potential fuel.

Other closures

Park Officials also announced Friday the temporary closure of the Noah Bud Ogle Cabin, Noah Bud Ogle Nature Trail, and associated parking area along Cherokee Orchard Road on Monday, Nov. 28, through Saturday, Dec. 3. No public access will be allowed during the closure period due to the removal of numerous hazardous trees.

The ban of all campfires and grills throughout the Park remains in effect including frontcountry and backcountry campsites and picnic areas. No use of wood or charcoal fires is permitted.

In addition, Park visitors are reminded to extinguish all cigarettes, cigars and pipes and dispose of them in appropriate containers. At this time, campers may continue to use gas camp stoves at designated campsites throughout the park.

Meanwhile, according to the latest report from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, a wildfire burning in Walland has affected 1,499 acres but is now 80 percent contained.

The fire began as on Nov. 17 as brush fire near Walland Elementary School on and spread rapidly under prevailing dry conditions.

Electronic Intifada: Blaming Palestinians for fires part of Netanyahu’s “strategy of incitement”

Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel are being blamed for recent wildfires as part of the Israeli government’s deliberate strategy of incitement, a leading rights group has said.

“Senior Israeli government officials – including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – continue to make inflammatory statements that lay much of the blame for the recent tragic fires in the Haifa and Jerusalem areas on Palestinian citizens of Israel,” Adalah, a legal advocacy group that defends the rights of Palestinians in the country, told The Electronic Intifada.

“This rhetoric is a continuation of the Netanyahu government’s ongoing strategy of incitement against Arab citizens of Israel, and its portrayal of them as a fifth column,” Adalah added. “The government’s legislative agenda also mirrors its incendiary speech with the passage of new racist laws, most recently the Expulsion Law which seeks to illegally kick Arab members of the Knesset out of the parliament.”

Shifting blame

Over the last week, Israel struggled to gain control of wildfires amid tinder dry weather conditions that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Top politicians immediately cast blame on Palestinians.

Education minister Naftali Bennett declared that “only someone who this land does not belong to would be capable of setting fire to it,” a comment that The Times of Israel estimated was “aimed at Palestinians and/or members of Israel’s Arab community.”

Netanyahu and public security minister Gilad Erdan suggested the fires were a form of “terrorism.”

“Whoever tries to burn parts of Israel will be punished for it severely,” Netanyahu vowed.

But as an analysis in the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz noted, Netanyahu’s declarations appeared to be a tactic to shift blame for his government’s incompetence in bringing the fires under control, despite its claims that it had learned the lessons from the devastating 2010 Carmel fire that killed more then 40 people.

“This time Netanyahu laid the blame on terrorism. He’ll always have that option,” the newspaper’s Yossi Verter observed. “Even before investigators and general security service (Shin Bet) personnel issued one unequivocal finding regarding the source of the fire, Netanyahu ruled that it was ‘arson and incitement’ that had caused the fires.”

Another analysis said that since the 2010 fires, the Netanyahu government had spent vast sums on firefighting planes that are ill-suited for the conditions in the country, proving too large to maneouver into the tight spots where fires were threatening homes.

Israel arrested more than 20 Palestinians on suspicion of arson or “incitement” to arson. In one case, Israel arrested an Arab citizen in the south of the country for a satirical Facebook post about the fires.

Adalah told The Electronic Intifada that it is “monitoring the arrests of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the wake of the fires and is receiving reports regarding recent developments from a variety of sources.”

It said that private lawyers are representing most of those detained, but that “decisions related to possible future legal action by Adalah are dependent upon developments in these cases.”

Snubbing Palestine

Palestinian citizens of Israel were as much victims of the wildfires as anyone else – particularly in and around the mixed city of Haifa. And rescue workers who are Palestinian citizens of Israel have been risking their lives to protect others.

Several countries, including Greece, Italy, Turkey, Russia and the United States sent firefighting aircraft or other resources.

And just like in 2010, the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank sent dozens of firefighters and their equipment to assist Israel.

Netanyahu even took a break from accusing PA leader Mahmoud Abbas of “incitement” to thank him for the Palestinian contribution.

Israel acknowledged the assistance of those countries in a post on its official Arabic-language Facebook page.

The post includes this graphic that show the flags of countries that contributed to the firefighting effort. But there is no Palestinian flag. Instead, a note at the bottom acknowledges that the “Palestinian civil defense is taking part in extinguishing the fires.”

The post is a symbolic example of Israel’s refusal to grant Palestinians equal status to others, even as they risk their lives to help it.

The House of Representatives has passed an intelligence bill aimed at tackling what Washington claims is political interference by Russia on a global level.

The 93-page bill, passed by the House in a 390-30 vote on Wednesday, calls for setting up a new, interagency panel to suppress Russia’s alleged attempts to “exert covert influence over peoples and governments,” The Washington Post reported.

The draft legislation goes on to state that the panel would be tasked with “countering active measures by Russia to exert covert influence, including exposing falsehoods, agents of influence, corruption, human rights abuses, terrorism and assassinations carried out by the security services or political elites of the Russian Federation or their proxies.”

The bill could be seen in direct opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen relations with Moscow.

In addition to thwarting Russia’s alleged interference, the bill also outlines funding for efforts to foil attacks and deny terrorists safe harbor in Iraq, Syria, North Africa, and other locations.

It aims to strengthen counter-intelligence and address threats from adversaries in cyberspace, space and at sea.

It also updates whistleblower procedures in the intelligence community and requires a declassification review of intelligence reports on detainees transferred out of Guantanamo Bay by President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.

The Senate is expected to vote on the bill before the end of the year.

Also Wednesday, the six Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to President Obama, seeking declassification of information about Russia’s alleged meddling in the US presidential election.

“We believe there is additional information concerning the Russian government and the US election that should be declassified and released to the public,” they wrote in the letter.

“We are conveying specifics through classified channels.”

Moscow has dismissed claims that it meddled in the US presidential election as “nonsense,” with President Vladimir Putin calling the accusation an attempt to distract American voters from domestic issues.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently told Italian newspaper Corriere della sera that there is still no proof of Moscow’s alleged meddling in the US presidential elections, calling the accusations “myth-making with a goal to solve the short-term political objectives.”

The interview also focused on sanctions against Moscow and NATO-Russia tensions.

In the immediate aftermath of the victory of Donald Trump at the US presidential elections, American and international media were quick to assume the alleged hacking of the camp of the Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by “Russian hackers” was to blame for the result.

“It is symptomatic that the authors of such insinuations, who had inflated Russophobic hysteria in the United States on the eve of the vote, are now playing mum.

“No promised ‘evidence’ of interference in the electoral process has been presented neither to the American, nor to the international public,” Lavrov said.

In October, Washington officially accused Moscow of staging hacking assaults on US officials and institutions, though not delivering any facts or other information backing the serious statement.

Kremlin rebuffed the accusations by the US as “nonsense.” The lack of proof has raised numerous questions as to what exact purposes the allegations might have actually served, Lavrov said.

“This confirms once again that the whole story is from the field of myth-making with a goal to solve the short-term political objectives,” the foreign minister added.

On November 29, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also weighed in, linking the recent hacking attacks on the country’s telecommunications group Deutsche Telecom to Moscow. However, the German leader admitted she did not know who exactly the attackers were.

‘Italy businesses dissatisfied with Russia sanctions’

When asked on how Russia is viewing relations with Italy, which is among the countries who imposed sanctions on Moscow over the Ukrainian crisis, Lavrov noted that both sides are suffering from the measures.

Quite frankly, donations are at a pitiful low. They have been for the past year. Thus, I have been scrounging the barrel to keep my online ministry going.

I have worked so hard and though much satisfaction results in the HUGE number of views — I get very little financial remuneration back due to the LOW number of donations. (Only a handful are helping me out of tens of thousands of viewers and readers.)

I really need a miracle at this point to get me out of the doldrums, both financially and psychologically.

On Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, after more than five years of fighting in Aleppo, Syrian government forces recaptured a major portion of the “rebel” enclave often called “east Aleppo”.It now should be called “southeast Aleppo,” and soon perhaps just “Aleppo”.

Thousands of grateful Syrian civilians ran into the arms of the soldiers, and were provided with food, shelter, transportation, medical services, and other needs.

They recounted horror stories of how the “rebels”, under the leadership of the extremist al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (AKA Jabhat Fateh al-Sham), denied them food and water and shot at them when they tried to leave (after confiscating their mobile phones so that no one could hear their story).

Nevertheless, hundreds of fighters decided to accept the government offer of amnesty, and laid down their arms, while the rest retreated into the shrinking enclave.

The main water pumping station for the entire city had been in this liberated section of the city, and government engineers promise that service will soon be restored for the first time in many years.

It is a major turning point in the Syrian war, signaling the beginning of the end for efforts by the US, NATO and the Arabian monarchies to create “regime change” and a failed state in place of the secular government supported by the vast majority of Syrian citizens.

But apparently none of this is of any importance.

After following what I thought were exciting developments through Twitter, Facebook, RT, and various alternative media sites, I flipped through the evening news of the three major US television networks (ABC, NBC & CBS) to see what sort of coverage they might have.

I was expecting denunciations, accusations of Russian and Syrian atrocities, and the usual lies and distortions.

Instead, I found nothing at all. There was no coverage of Syria.

Apparently, nothing of any consequence had happened. Instead, there was a story about how a group of US workers had won the lottery and had all become millionaires.

Silly me! I had thought it was a historic turning point.

I can only imagine that the lavishly funded Aleppo Media Center and White Helmets “impartial” “volunteer” organizations were too busy running for their lives, along with their head-chopping heroes, to concoct their stories and stage their imitation rescue and black flag operations, and distribute them to the western media.

Without these sources, the corporate media were left with nothing to report except stories that contradicted everything they had been reporting for months and years.

Silence is golden.

Paul Larudee is one of the founders of the Free Gaza and Free Palestine Movements and an organizer in the International Solidarity Movement.

Donors in the “$1,000,000+” category will receive four tickets to a “leadership luncheon” billed as an “exclusive inaugural event” for donors in that category and featuring “select Cabinet appointees and House and Senate leadership to honor our most generous inaugural supporters,” according to a brochure obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

They’ll also get four tickets to a dinner with Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, and eight tickets to a “ladies luncheon” billed as “an opportunity to meet the ladies of the first families.”

In addition, they’ll receive tickets to a series of other dinners and receptions featuring Trump, Pence and other officials, and eight “premier access” tickets to a black-tie inaugural ball attended by the president, vice president and their wives.

The donor packages offer tickets to Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, although the packages include an odd caveat noting that “this congressional ceremony is not part of our official package; however, Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) will have access to tickets.”

The Center for Public Integrity confirmed the brochure’s authenticity with three sources familiar with the donor packages.

Spokespeople for Trump, as well as Tom Barrack, the chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee, as well as other members of the committee, could not immediately be reached for comment.

The inaugural committee is reportedly attempting to raise $65 million to $75 million to pay for inaugural celebrations.

Taxpayers will kick in millions of dollars more to pay for things such as security and the swearing-in celebration itself.

Presidents have taken varied approaches to inauguration fundraising, and they’ve sometimes changed the rules from one inauguration to the other.

In 2009, for example, President Barack Obama set strict limits on inaugural fundraising, capping individual contributions at $50,000 and banning donations from corporations, political action committees and registered lobbyists.

Four years later, Obama lifted the contribution cap for individuals. He also allowed corporate contributions.

That year, his inaugural committee reported raising about $43.8 million, a total that included seven-figure contributions from AT&T, Boeing and Microsoft.

Trump has decided to accept corporate contributions, but not money from registered lobbyists, according to a report in the New York Times. Lobbyists have also been restricted from working on his transition team.

Inaugural festivities let big donors celebrate alongside the new president and mingle with incoming members of the administration.

“You can tell donors do get something out of it when you take a look at the funding sources,” said Craig Holman, a longtime government affairs lobbyist for nonprofit group Public Citizen, which advocates for limiting the influence of money in politics.

“To throw a lot of money into a big party to welcome a new president, these corporations believe that is endearing them to the next administration.”

All the donor packages include “Priority Booking at Premier Inaugural Hotel(s),” allowing donors the chance to book prime hotel rooms (at their own expense, of course, and with a four-night minimum stay).

Packages are crafted for donors who contribute at least $25,000 to the inaugural committee, a nonprofit set up to raise money for the celebrations that traditionally accompany the swearing in of a new president.

The nonprofit is required to disclose its donors but not until after Trump’s inauguration.

The deal that Donald Trump negotiated with United Technologies to keep Carrier jobs in Indiana is getting even worse.

Trump and Pence gave United Technologies $7 million of taxpayer money in exchange for only keeping 800 jobs in the US.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal only covers 800 Carrier jobs in the Indianapolis furnace plant and an additional 300 research and development jobs that were not going to Mexico.

Carrier parent company United Technologies still intends to move 1,300 jobs to Mexico.

In return for keeping less in the US than they are moving to Mexico, United Technologies is getting a tax cut and incentive package worth $7 million over the next ten years.
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Using taxpayer dollars to bribe companies to stay in the US is always a bad deal, but the deal gets even worse when it keeps less than half of the at risk jobs in the country.

Trump and Pence just threw away seven million dollars that Indiana taxpayers are going to have to pay for so that Carrier can keep a fraction of the jobs they were going to send to Mexico in the country.

No matter how Republicans try to spin it, this is a bad deal that is going to set the standard for more bad deals to come all across the country.

President-elect Trump is already demonstrating that he is going to be great for millionaires, billionaires, and corporations, while everyone else is going to be left holding the bag for his upward redistribution of wealth.

Carrier Will Receive $7 Million in Tax Breaks to Keep Jobs in Indiana
Deal emerges after United Tech CEO’s pilgrimage to Trump Tower

As TV crews and reporters camped out in the lobby of Trump Tower on Monday, recording VIP arrivals in hopes of detecting new members of the incoming Donald Trump administration, a middle-aged corporate executive drew little notice.

Greg Hayes, chief executive of United Technologies Corp., wasn’t there to see Mr. Trump.

He rode the gold-colored elevators to see Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and the two men then shook hands on a deal that seemed impossible months earlier, say people familiar with the matter.

The Indiana governor was offering $7 million over 10 years to encourage the company to keep in the state roughly one-third of the 2,100 jobs it planned to ship to Mexico.

United Technologies would also get credit from the state for keeping 300 research and headquarters jobs that it didn’t plan to shift abroad.(!?!)

Mr. Hayes’ pilgrimage to Trump Tower ended roughly two weeks of intensive talks between representatives of Mr. Pence and United Technologies, the Farmington, Conn., parent of air conditioner and furnace maker Carrier.

The agreement was touted by both sides Thursday.

People familiar with the negotiations said the company and Mr. Pence’s team also discussed a wide range of priorities, including United Technologies’ interest in a corporate tax overhaul, and regulations the company feels have been a burden to its business.

Mr. Pence admitted on Thursday that he hadn’t thought the company would reverse course, saying it was clear at a March meeting with Carrier officials that “the die was cast.” Instead of keeping the factory open, he negotiated in the spring for the company to pay back about $1.5 million in city and state incentives.

The company’s February decision to close a Carrier plant in Indianapolis became a national issue after a video of a manager announcing the layoffs went viral. Mr. Trump seized on the moment to rally supporters as part of his campaign to protect U.S. manufacturing jobs. He brought it up days later at a Republican presidential debate.

At a March 7 rally in Concord, N.H., Mr. Trump said he would intervene and call Carrier’s CEO. “Somehow it is not presidential for the president of the United States to call up some guy at Carrier, and say, ‘This is the president of the United States.’ Who cares?” he told supporters.

During the summer, however, with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leading in most national polls, the company and its union workers moved ahead with plans to wind down operations over three years.

Workers from Mexico would visit to measure equipment that was being moved to Monterrey. In July, the union worked out a severance agreement with the company.

But after his surprise election, Mr. Trump made good on his campaign pledge and phoned Mr. Hayes.

“I called Greg and I said, ‘It’s really important we have to do something because you have a lot of people leaving,’” Mr. Trump said Thursday, adding that he dismissed the CEO when Mr. Hayes responded that he had already built a new facility in Mexico.

“Rent it. Sell it or knock it down. I don’t care.”

The deal that emerged this week is a relatively standard package of state incentives, according to people familiar with the agreement.

In exchange for $7 million in tax breaks, Carrier will invest $16 million in its facilities in the state.

The company will keep about 800 jobs it had planned to move out of the Indianapolis plant, but it still plans to move 600 jobs from that factory to Mexico.

United Technologies also will proceed with plans to close a second plant in Huntington, Ind., that makes electronic controls, moving 700 other jobs to Mexico.

In addition to Carrier, United Technologies makes Pratt & Whitney jet engines and Otis elevators. It employs about 200,000 people, about one-third of them in the U.S.

The federal government is also an important customer. The U.S. military accounts for about 10% of United Technologies’ $56 billion in annual sales, for products like the engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, said he would be asking more about the Carrier deal and said he would inquire whether there were promises about defense contracts.

Thursday’s plant tour for Mr. Trump was a victory lap to show that he could deliver on campaign promises. He used the moment to double down on another one: building a wall on the Mexican border. “Trust me, we’re going to build a wall.”

Let’s see. Carrier announced in February that it would transfer 2,100 jobs to Mexico as a money-making move, and became a campaign issue for Trump. As such, Carrier is now saying it still plans to eliminate 1,100 jobs after this so-called deal. A few employees get peanuts, but most get the peanut shells they were going to get anyway.

When the camera’s not looking, these kinds of deals are almost impossible to enforce. There is nothing to keep Carrier from deciding to fold and move on down the road later on, with their “losses” in the form of $16 million “investment” ($9 million after taxpayer funded breaks), and a few pennies per share as nothing more than PR money.

In the meantime, we get a preview of Trumpian godfather politics Jew York style, complete with yet more bait and switch. It was this kind of giveaway thing that Trump said he was opposed to way back when in his campaign.

NYT:

“I don’t want them moving out of the country without consequences,” Mr. Trump said, even if that means angering the free-market-oriented Republicans he beat in the primaries but will have to work with on Capitol Hill.

“The free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing,” Mr. Pence added, as Mr. Trump interjected, “Every time, every time.”

**But since the pact was disclosed on Tuesday, critics have pounced on Carrier’s receipt of $7 million in incentives from the state of Indiana — just the kind of corporate giveaways Mr. Trump knocked as he slammed Carrier on the campaign trail last spring.**
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Despite the cheers Mr. Trump received as he walked around the factory floor, where the lines continued to run and he had to shout at times to be heard, another 1,000 workers for the company in Indiana will be losing their jobs.

This includes 700 at a United Technologies factory in nearby Huntington, as well as several hundred here. The 800 or so jobs that are being preserved are mostly on the lines that build medium- and high-efficiency gas furnaces.

Not long after Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence departed for the airport and to another rally in Ohio to celebrate his victory, workers coming in for the night shift received a letter titled “Company Update on Indianapolis Operations.”

“While this announcement is good news for many, we recognize it is not good news for everyone,” the letter stated. “We are moving forward with previously announced plans to relocate the fan coil manufacturing lines, with the expected completion by the end of 2017.”

United Technologies, Carrier’s parent, saw the writing on the wall as soon as Mr. Trump declared victory last month.

Offering to preserve jobs, even at the cost of some of the $65 million savings the company expected from the move, could serve its larger corporate interests.

“Every penny counts, but if we step back and I’m looking at earnings of $6.60 per share this year, 2 cents is an easy concession if the president-elect listens to some of the company’s bigger concerns,” said Howard Rubel, a senior equity analyst with Jefferies, an investment banking firm in New York.

And Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence, while providing a carrot through the state incentives and promises of future business tax cuts, held an implicit stick: the threat of pulling federal contracts from Carrier’s parent, United Technologies.

Mr. Trump and his team were well aware that the amount United Technologies stood to lose in those contracts dwarfed the savings from moving some of its operations to Monterrey from Indiana.

Despite only accomplishing half of what had been promised in the campaign, Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence predicted that the number of jobs ultimately preserved could rise as Carrier follows through on its promise to invest more than $16 million in the state.

**But since the pact was disclosed on Tuesday, critics have pounced on Carrier’s receipt of $7 million in incentives from the state of Indiana — just the kind of corporate giveaways Mr. Trump knocked as he slammed Carrier on the campaign trail last spring.**

That’s because Trump wasn’t the one making the corporate giveaway deals…

To the thoughtful commenter who wishes for a terminology useful or that would be complimentary to rational discussions which are no doubt necessary, but complicated by the mental sabotage so effectively wroughtin the minds of those who would be obvious as well as necessary allies; I have had to first on my own at one time quite consciously unknown obstacle course which impeded ‘freely’ applying the due diligence and unsparing critical survey which is simply thinking of Jews as one would any other group.

At first, I found that the material I found of the most value ultimately, was difficult to review as those parts of mind necessary for critical discernment had been preloaded with bogus stereotypes, lacking the utility of which stereotypes was lacking, as these decoys had not even the trace of useful of useful detail which would justify and explain the durability and persistence of such clues - this dependent on their retaining the data!

Alas, that as every channel of information undergoes transformation you will notice that The Simpsons, a rich zoo of simplistic stereotypes each with some unkind observation that is justified by some correspondent trait, in some way touching, somewhere, on reality.

The exception being a remarkably unconvincing rendition of a Rabbi, so benign as to be curious, like a “which one of these things is not like the other?” features on the Sunday Comics page.

Staring bluntly even at these, and many other things more obviously out of place and troubling, was a process of liberation, realizing that much is in all things misrepresented, I suggest the D-Day of the process comes via Discernment!

Whatever your peers, deceivers, their lackeys, and polluted knowledge base would have you believe, in my opinion much of the illusion of credibility, authority, and justification for much evil collapses entirely when one grasps for oneself that the prevailing leadership, most insidious activist class, and even the political leadership of the most vehement racist stripe in The State of Israel and elsewhere, aren’t even Semites.

Indeed, the annoying party wrecking the apparatus in the wheelhouse as they guide various politic systems over the falls around the world making a lot of noise with the never ending drama of anti-Semitism, that inexplicable mental illness which arises coincidentally with ‘activity’ inimical to their hosting Society… are counterfeit operators.

It is not racist or wrong to discuss what ‘parties’ do, and now that your beachhead is established, there are other well planned emplacements ahead, devised with malice aforethought by: the Pseudo-Semitic Supremacists whose pedestal and scope of
action in recent years is unjustified Baloney.

I thank Brother Nathaniel for this venue and for his part in separating the wheat from the chaff… despite the defects I am sure are in my poor man’s analysis.